Another prediction from the man who thought 640K should be enough ram for anyone: Gates Sees Diminished Role for Keyboards 6 hours ago PITTSBURGH (AP) —...
I've been experimenting with the emachineshop software. It quotes price estimates. The design I've been playing with improves on my previous ones by making...
It was hard making myself spend so much money but I finally did order some parts from emachineshop. I don't know exactly why or what I'm going to do with the...
Why not adapt to an open hardware platform like arduino/freeduino? It's based on ATmega168 and and has USB too. I'm planning on building my chording keyboard...
Hi I'm looking at switches for my chording keyboard... what switches do people like? I usually order from newark but am open to other sources. In particular,...
... ========================================== Hey why not. I just never heard of it. If they can beat $31.92+tax&shipping and the roughly 4 sq. in. of the...
i'm a machinist by trade and could make the frames on a the tabletop cnc machines i have. simple design and as much adjustment in it as possible. also you...
Hi Eli Very interesting. With your permission I'll stick those photos in the photos section of this group. I went to a screw adjustment as well but rather...
... RBBB kit $11 from moderndevice.com Boarduino kit $17.50 from adafruit.com ... Interesting. Well, starting from a popular known working open source design...
Molding is certainly one of the ways you might avoid adjustability and some work on it has been reported in this group. I lean toward adjustability only...
... Adjustability adds weight and complexity. ... CNC adds expense. Is it worth it? How about putting some plaster in a plastic bag and grabbing it? That's...
Maybe Marius Hooge will update us on the molded shells he was making (see the photos section of this group). I think he probably has as much experience as...
... typing and gripping with the same fingers at the same time. =============================== Come to think of it that's undoubtedly why the Alphagrip, ...
... I don't know how other people use it, but I support my AlphaGrip with just knuckles of my index fingers under those little "wings" at the top of the...
Now I'm visualizing a pendulum hanging from your middle index knuckles, Toby. It's got keys on both sides and as you press them it swings back and forth...
It's hard to explain, but I only have trouble "gripping" it between my knuckles when I use the little fingers' buttons (furthest from the top so the greatest...
Slashdot has once again enthusiastically cited that lapboard thing I have sneered at, the one with the little platform below it on which to run a standard...
Hi John This is my first comment on this list; though I have read all the posts. First person shooters *do* have standard keys, but almost everyone I know ...
Hi Richard, I just now googled around and Digikey has the LIS302DL 3-axis accelerometer chip used in the Wii for $11 ea. & development boards for $54. That's ...
Hi Are you guys talking about using accelerometers instead of switches in chording keyboard that is also used as a game controller? Tony ... -- Best Regards. ...
No. we're talking (I think :-) about an accelerometer mouse or, more generally, movement controller/sensor a la Wii, combined with a bunch of switches acting...
... Marquard switches: http://blog.russnelson.com/chordite/chordite.html -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com | Software that needs Crynwr sells...
What's the actuation force? This company seems to make quite a range of switches but you don't specify a model number for the one that's pictured; it doesn't...
No I hadn't I read this group by email and have, I think, only visited the group description page once before. For those like me, here's the actual URL of the...
I dunno. Assumptions, including a uncountable number of unconscious ones, are just how communication works. Both speaker and hearer must assume contexts for...
... Heheh. *It* does not assume browser access; *you* do! It's perfectly possible and reasonable to sign up to a yahoo group and read and post all the...
Possible and reasonable, yes, but Yahoo and I are assuming at least some interest in the photos, files, links and the search functions. Yahoo groups via...
... I probably won't. I'm working on 0g (touch contact). And they look hard to get and expensive. I was more wondering about your selection process. ... ...